Not Funny
By: Jena Friedman
Narrated by: Jena Friedman
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“In fact very funny.” —Cosmopolitan
“[A] hilarious and much-needed book.” —Samantha Bee, Emmy Award–winning comedian, author, and host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
For fans of the perceptive comedy of Hannah Gadsby, Lindy West, and Sarah Silverman, Academy Award–nominated and acclaimed stand-up comedian Jena Friedman... Read more
I Like to Watch
By: Emily Nussbaum
Narrated by: Emily Nussbaum
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.
“Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic—smart, engaging, funny, generous, and insightful.”—David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF... Read more
An Everlasting Meal
By: Tamar Adler
Narrated by: Tamar Adler
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler has written a book that “reads less like a cookbook than like a recipe for a delicious life” (New York magazine).
In this meditation on cooking and eating, Tamar Adler weaves philosophy and instruction into approachable lessons on feeding ourselves well. An Everlasting Meal demonstrates the implicit frugality... Read more
The Crane Wife
By: CJ Hauser
Narrated by: CJ Hauser
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love... Read more
View audiobookSister Outsider
By: Audre Lorde
Narrated by: Robin Eller
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action... Read more
View audiobookThe World's Largest Man
By: Harrison Scott Key
Narrated by: Harrison Scott Key
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Harrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi, among pious, Bible-reading women and men who either shot things or got women pregnant. At the center of his world was his larger-than-life father—a hunter, a fighter, a football coach, "a man better suited to living in a remote frontier wilderness of the nineteenth century... Read more
View audiobookNaked in the Rideshare
By: Rebecca Shaw & Ben Kronengold
Narrated by: Rebecca Shaw, Ben Kronengold, Mark Sanderlin, O...
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
From Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold, the youngest comedy writers ever for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and masterminds behind the viral 2018 Yale graduation speech, comes a hilarious collection of short stories taking on coming-of-age, memes, sex, politics, relationships, and Goop, with satire, self-deprecation, and utter... Read more
View audiobookMaeve in America
By: Maeve Higgins
Narrated by: Maeve Higgins
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
“If Tina Fey and David Sedaris had a daughter, she would be Maeve Higgins.” —Glamour
A startlingly hilarious essay collection about one woman’s messy path to finding her footing in New York City, from breakout comedy star and podcaster Maeve Higgins
Maeve Higgins was a bestselling author and comedian in her native Ireland when, at the grand old... Read more
Look Alive Out There
By: Sloane Crosley
Narrated by: Sloane Crosley
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author
Sloane Crosley returns to the form that made her a household name in really quite a lot of households: Essays! These small doses of wit and sass make for an exuberant, unforgettable audiobook.
From the New York Times–bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There—a brand-new collection of essays... Read more
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth
By: Thomas Morris
Narrated by: Thomas Morris & Ruper Farley
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science
One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018
One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018
This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness.
A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in... Read more
A Sense of Direction
By: Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Narrated by: Erik Singer
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the kind of constraint that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife, he has moved to anything-goes Berlin. But the surfeit of freedom there has begun to... Read more
View audiobookThe Lord God Made Them All
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
**This program is read by Nicholas Ralph, star of the PBS Masterpiece series All Creatures Great and Small**
"Nicholas Ralph’s readings of Herriot’s stories are as comforting an experience as the show, and even more immersive." - The Houston Chronicle
Now available in unabridged CD format for the first time, The Lord God Made Them All is the... Read more
Small Victories
By: Anne Lamott
Narrated by: Anne Lamott
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Stitches, and Help, Thanks, Wow comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace.
Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It’s an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message... Read more
After Cooling
By: Eric Dean Wilson
Narrated by: Eric Dean Wilson
Length: 16 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
This “ambitious [and] delightful” (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world.
In After Cooling, Eric Dean Wilson braids together air-conditioning... Read more
Words Are My Matter
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Words Are My Matter gathers talks, essays, introductions to beloved books, and book reviews by Ursula K. Le Guin, one of our foremost public literary intellectuals. A must-listen collection, Words Are My Matter is a manual for investigating the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction—and, through the lens of deep considerations of contemporary... Read more
View audiobookDavid Attenborough Life On Air: Memoirs Of A Broadcaster
By: David Attenborough
Narrated by: David Attenborough
Length: 19 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
David Attenborough reads his own bestselling memoir
'An enthralling autobiography from one of the linchpins of television' Good Book Guide
David Attenborough is the acknowledged voice of nature, loved and revered worldwide for his groundbreaking wildlife documentaries. Over the course of his long BBC career, David has risen from trainee producer... Read more
The Vision of the Anointed
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Jim Seybert
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Thomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failures
The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in... Read more
Material Girls
By: Kathleen Stock
Narrated by: Kathleen Stock
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard
'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday Times
Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an... Read more
Oranges
By: John McPhee
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a magazine article, but John McPhee kept encountering so much irresistible information that he wrote a book. It is perhaps the last word on the subject (the first came in 500 BC and is attributed to Confucius). McPhee writes about the botany, history, and industry of oranges, from the great... Read more
View audiobookUnderqualified Advice
By: Drew Hayes
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
My name is Drew Hayes, and for the past six years I've made my living as a writer. In that time, I've published twenty books, written hundreds of thousands of words, and made countless mistakes—most of which I like to think I've learned from.
Underqualified Advice (and Other Amusing Diversions) is my attempt to compile those lessons and share... Read more
Are We There Yet?
By: Shefa Gold
Narrated by: Shefa Gold
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
It's the perpetual question: Are we there yet? We've probably asked and answered it countless times. But impatience can cloud the real question: Where are we right now? Are We There Yet? shows a way to turn travel into a spiritual practice.From the Gully to the Crossroads--walking, driving, flying--Rabbi Shefa Gold shares her experience and... Read more
View audiobookIf You Live to 100, You Might As Well Be Happy
By: Rhee Kun Hoo
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
This endearing, giftable guidebook by Korean bestseller Dr. Rhee reflects on the wisdom he’s learned during his life: how to forgive, persevere, and stop the rat race, plus the joys of living simply and the power of ordinary happiness. He explores his relationships with his wife, children, and grandchildren, and how to stay whole as your body... Read more
View audiobookMattie, Milo, and Me
By: Anne Abel
Narrated by: Jen Jacob & George Hahn
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Anne grew up in an abusive home, leading to severe depression and a determination to do better as a mother. One of her sons wants a dog from the time he is a baby; Anne very much does not. For years she appeases him with creatures who live in cages and tanks, but on his tenth birthday she can no longer say no—and she proceeds to fall in love... Read more
View audiobookA Yorkshire Vet: The Next Chapter
By: Julian Norton
Narrated by: Simon Slater
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The Yorkshire Vet embarks on this newest adventure treating the animals and their assorted owners across the Yorkshire Dales.
A Yorkshire Vet: The Next Chapter follows Julian's veterinary stories and amusing anecdotes through his work as a mixed practice vet in North Yorkshire.
Julian has spent over twenty years working in Thirsk, literally... Read more